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“I’d never written something that was expressly meant to deal with... an issue at hand,” says David Lowery. “I’d never tried to actually use screenwriting as therapy before.” It was 2019; the filmmaker was shooting his fantasy drama The Green Knight in Ireland, and things weren’t going great. He had become very unwell, sick with flu for weeks, at some points unable to speak, and began genuinely pondering his mortality — and wondering what he was doing with his time on the planet. “I was questioning the value of, you know, ‘If I’m never going to make another movie again, if this is the last one I have, is it worthy of being my last movie?’ And it was. …
摘自《帝国》(Empire)第453期 · 2026年6月刊,Alex Godfrey。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。